Sumários

Control, separation and association within neoliberalism

8 Outubro 2020, 13:00 Rita Sousa


Session 6: Control, separation and association within neoliberalism

Required Readings for the lecture:

Amable, Bruno (2011), "Morals and politics in the ideology of Neo-liberalism", Socio- Economic Review , 9, 3-30.

Complementary readings:

Friedman, Milton (1951), "Neo-Liberalism and its Prospects", 17 February 1951: 89-93 Farmand/Human Events.

Hayek, F. A. (1960), The Constitution of Liberty , Routledge: London, [Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9)

Mirowski, Philip (2007), "Naturalizing the market on the road to revisionism: Bruce Caldwell's Hayek's challenge and the challenge of Hayek interpretation", Journal of Institutional Economics 3: 351-372.

Rodrigues, João (2013), "Between Rules and Incentives: Uncovering Hayek's Moral Economy ", American Journal of Economics and Sociology , (72) 3: 565-592.

Control, separation and association within classical liberalism

6 Outubro 2020, 13:00 Rita Sousa


Session 5: Control, separation and association within classical liberalism

Required Readings for the lecture:

Clift B (2014) Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan [Chapter 3]

Complementary readings:

Caldas, José Castro, Ana Costa and Tom Burns (2007), "Rethinking economics: the potential contribution of the classics", Cambridge Journal of Economics, 31(1): 25-40.

Mill, John Stuart Mill (1868), Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy (People's Edition), London: Logmans, Green, Reader and Dyer [Book II, Chapters I and II].

Nussbaum, Martha C. (2004), "Mill Between Aristotle & Bentham", Daedalus 133(2): 60-68.
Smith, Adam (1993[1776]),
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ,

Oxford: Oxford University Press, [Book 1, Chapter VII, 53-62; Book 1, Chapter XI, 145-157].

Watson, Matthew (2005), "What makes a market economy? Schumpeter, Smith and Walras on the coordination problem, New Political Economy , 10 (2): 143-161.

Control, separation and association: behavioral postulates

1 Outubro 2020, 13:00 Rita Sousa


Session 4: Control, separation and association: behavioral postulates


Required Readings for the lecture:
Sen, Amartya (1977), "Rational Fools", Philosophy and Public Affairs, 6(4): 317-344.


Complementary readings:
Bowles, Samuel (2004), Microeconomics - Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution, Princeton University Press, [Chapter 3].
Hirschman, Albert O. (1985), "Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating some Categories of Economic Discourse", Economics and Philosophy 1: 7-21.
Kanheman, Daniel (2003), "Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral
Economics", American Economic Review December: 1449-1475.
Nussbaum, Martha C. (1997), "Flawed Foundations: The Philosophical Critique of (A Particular Type of) Economics", The University of Chicago Law Review, 64(4): 1197-1214.
Simon, Herbert A. (1955), "A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice", Quarterly Journal of Economics 69: 99-118.


The problem of social order: control, separation and association

29 Setembro 2020, 13:00 Rita Sousa


Session 3: The problem of social order: control, separation and association

Required Readings for the lecture:

Hardin, G. (1968), "The Tragedy of the Commons", Science, 162:1243-1248.

Wade, Robert (1987), "The Management of Common Property Resources: collective action as an alternative to privatisation and state regulation", Cambridge Journal of Economics, 11: 95-106.

Complementary readings:

Demstz, H. (1967), "Toward a theory of property rights", American Economic Review, 62: 347-59.

Session 2: Ideas and the making of the economy

24 Setembro 2020, 13:00 Rita Sousa


Session 2: Ideas and the making of the economy


Required Readings for the lecture:
Hirschman, Albert (1982), "Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?", Journal of Economic Literature, XX, 1463-1484


Complementary readings and other endeavors:
Blyth, Mark (2011), "Ideas, Uncertainty, and Evolution", in Daniel Béland and Robert Henry Cox (eds), Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research, pp. 83-101, New York: Oxford University Press.

Commanding Heights: The Battle of Ideas- Episode One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfRTpoYpHfw